| 英文摘要 |
Under the conventional theory and practice of competition law, the focus of the relevant market definition in merger review is on the products and services of the merging parties. This is also the same for the Internet-based businesses realm at present. Instead of selling data directly, the providers of Internet-based goods usually use data to produce, improve and innovate the products and services. Under such circumstances, there would be no relevant market definition for data in the merger review process under the conventional competition analysis methods. However, as the importance of data on the competition of Internet-based business realm has been noticed, there are views that putative market for data should be defined to better capture the influence of data. The analysis of this article shows that data influence the competition of Internet-based businesses through different routes and the conventional analysis methods do miss some of them. However, the existing market definition methods and the proposition of defining putative market for data fail to provide effective solutions. A better way is to improve the market definition methods for products and services and to focus more on the inner relationship between data and the Internetbased goods.
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